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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The Kings Mountain Herald | www.kmherald.net
Lady Mounties drop 2 in BSC
Kings Mountain Middle’s 2013 unbeaten Tri-County championship soccer team.
Lady Patriots win Tri-County Perfect 8-0 record, only four goals surrendered Kings Mountain Middle School's girls soccer team won the Tri-County Conference championship last week with a 8-0 victory over R-S Central. Tuesday's win closed out a perfect 13-0 season for the Lady Patriots. Kings Mountain defeated Shelby 5-0 in the first round of the playoffs. The team had a dominant season with a power offense scoring 77 goals
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and a tight defense which allowed only four. The defense held their opponents scoreless in 11 of 13 games. Although some impact players will be moving on to bolster the high school team in 2014, coaches Tammy Harmon and Amber Crouse will have numerous players returning with hopes of repeating their championship legacy in 2014. Members of this year's team were
Madison Weeks, Virginia Dellinger, MacKenzie Ramsey, Paloma Dettloff, Alissa Bouttavong, Cassidy Calhoun, Ashley Stenger, Morgan Murphy, Molly Vongphouthone, Savannah Peppers, Katelin Phaengkhamhak, Emma Pasour, Kaytlyn Bragg, Natalie Hammett, Lauren Campbell, Sara Pasour, Mary Catherine May and Ashley Rhom.
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KM-South Point game cancelled
KMHS runners honored for GPA
Youth basketball camp set at KMHS
Kings Mountain High’s final regular season softball game against South Point, scheduled for Tuesday night, was cancelled because of wet weather. Since the game had no bearing on the state 3A playoff berths, it will not be made up. South Point goes into the 3A playoffs as the #1 team from the BSC. Crest is #2 and KM #3. Kings Mountain will open state play at Patton High School in Morganton Friday at 6 p.m.
The Kings Mountain High men’s cross country team has been honored for having the third highest GPA among all cross country teams in the state of North Carolina. Their achievement earned KMHS a $100 check from AAA of the Carolinas. Members of the team are Devon Ayscue, Will Boyles, Josh Brucker, Noal Coleman, Jacob Edmonds, Collin Foster, Bailey Goodson, Alexander Greene and William McGill.
The Kings Mountain High School boys basketball program will have a youth basketball camp June 17-20 from 8 a.m.-12 noon. The camp is for rising third graders through rising eighth graders. The cost is $50. For more information visit http://www.clevelandcountyschools.org/sites/kmh sathletics
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ents Starrwars 2013 Friday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Kings Mountain National Guard Armory. The pro wrestling card will raise money for Kings Mountain High basketball player Isaiah Cole's summer trip to play all-star basketball in Australia. Tickets are only $10 and includes six big matches as well as an autograph session by "Mr. No. 1) George South, who will be signing copies of "Dad You Don't Work You Wrestle." South and Shane "Starrider" Austin will battle Assassins 1 and 2 in the main event.For more information call 704-577-5503.
Braves 9-10’s defeat Dodgers The Braves 9-10 year olds defeated the Dodgers 86 Friday night May 3rd at the YMCA. The exciting back and forth game ended after 4 innings when regulation time expired. Charlie Melton was the starting pitcher for the Braves and turned in a strong 2 1/3 innings. Devon Pressley pitched the final 1 2/3 innings in an outstanding relief performance. The top of the 4th inning began with Dodgers leading 6-4. The Braves then loaded the bases with a walk to Scott Harrelson,a single by Carson Kinmon, and a walk to Charlie Melton, bringing Devon Pressley to the plate. Pressley worked the count to full before clearing the bases with an inside the park grand slam shotto the right/center field gap to give the Braves the lead. The Braves retired the first three Dodgers batters in the bottom of the 4th inning to secure the win.
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The Mountaineers suffered a letdown and Childers had an unusual day on the mound in a 9-8 loss to Forestview Friday night in Gastonia. The Jaguars managed only five hits but took advantage of 10 walks to stay one-half game ahead of Ashbrook in the race for the fourth and final BSC playoff berth. Forestview’s regular season is complete and Ashbrook was scheduled to play Crest last night. Ashbrook needed a win over the Chargers to force a tiebreaker game with Forestview for fourth. Short, Hester, Childers, Miranda Ellis and Amber Goins had two hits each to lead a 12-hit KM plate attack
Legion baseball needs donations The Kings Mountain American Legion baseball team is in need of sponsors for the coming season, which begins Tuesday, May 2 at 7 p.m. at Morganton. Businesses and individuals wishing to contribute to the team can contact Tim Ross at 704-913-0991 or Jerry Ross at 704-616-3391. At present, 22 players from Kings Mountain and Bessemer City are competing for starting positions on the Post 155 team. Jason Bridges is the head coach. Kings Mountain will play all of its home games at Lan-
caster Field at Kings Mountain High School. All games at 7 p.m. THE SCHEDULE May 23, at Morganton; 24 at Union County; 25, Lincoln County; 26, at Queen City; 28, at Hickory; 31, Mint Hill. June 1, at Huntersville; 2, Gastonia; 8, Hickory; 14, Gaston Braves; 15, Union County; 16, at Lincoln County; 21, Queen City; 22, at Mint Hill; 23, Huntersville; 27, at Gastonia; 28, at Gaston Braves.
Braves 11-12’s win one, lose one The Cardinals shutout the Braves 3-0 in a 11-12 year old game last Tuesday night at the YMCA. Seth Kennedy picked up the win with a complete game one-hitter. He struck out 12. Blake Broome doubled and scored on a double by Kennedy in the fifth, breaking a scoreless tie. Haddon Pruitt followed with an RBI single and Pruitt scored later in the inning. Jordan Goins went all the way for the Braves, surrendering just three hits and fanning six. John Harmon Melton had the lone hit for the Braves.
The Braves defeated the Yankees 8-3 Friday night. Justin Osborne led the offense with two hits, including the go-ahead run to lead off the sixth inning. Joe Ruffalo and Nathan Groves had doubles and Triston Hannon added a single. Silas Price pitched four innings, allowing no hits and striking out nine. Jordan Goins pitched the fifth inning to get the win. Joe Ruffalo closed the game. DJ Bagwell pitched for the Yankees, allowing just three hits and striking out 13 in five innings.
He was inducted into the Kings Mountain Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. He was elected to the SCACA Hall of Fame in 2006. He has received numerous other awards including South Carolina Athletic Director of the Year, the
Charles B. Stuart Athletic Administrator Award, the prestigious Order of the Silver Crescent from the State of South Carolina, State Award of Merit and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Newberry Touchdown Club.
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Kings Mountain High’s women’s softball team dropped one-run games to Crest and Forestview last week and was scheduled to host South Point last night in their final regular season game. The Lady Mountaineers will be opening state 3A playoff action Friday as the Big South Conference’s #3 seed, but the opponent was not known at The Herald’s press time. Kings Mountain lost a tough one Tuesday at Crest, 5-4. The Mountaineers got off to a great start in the top of the first when Emily Hester slammed a two-run home run. But Crest answered in the bottom of the inning with three runs, highlighted by Macy Ollis’ solo home run. Ollis hit a two-run homer in the third to put the Chargers ahead 5-2 before Kings Mountain cut the margin to 5-4 in the fourth on a tworun double by Molly Short. The Lady Mountaineers threatened on other occasions but couldn’t score. They left nine runners on base. Short (2-for-4 with two RBIs), Leah Herndon (2-for3) and Hester (two-run homerun) led a seven-hit KM plate attack. Reagan Childers went the distance on the mound, allowing only five hits and fanning six.
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